The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Mergiraf - syntax-aware git merge driver
  

  programming vcs
  

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• The Peach meme: On CRTs, pixels and signal quality (again)
  

  art retrocomputing
  

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• Happy Birthday to KDE
  

  linux
  

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• Meta news on Lix in October 2025
  

  nix
  

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• zoo of array languages
  

  apl
  

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• We need (at least) ergonomic, explicit handles
  

  rust
  

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• Revisiting SailfishOS
  

  mobile
  

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• nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
  

  ai rust
  

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• Django forever
  

  python web
  

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• Why did containers happen? A view from ten years in the trenches by Docker's former CTO Justin Cormack
  

  virtualization
  

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• Octothorpes
  

  web
  

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• nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
  

  unix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial
  

  vcs
  

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• Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT)
  

  math science
  

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• The Country That Broke Kotlin
  

  kotlin
  

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• LineageOS 23 released
  

  android
  

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• fzf 0.66.0 introduces “--raw mode”
  

  release unix
  

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• Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
  

  hardware
  

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• The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
  

  compilers
  

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• Three ways "formally verified" can go wrong
  

  formalmethods
  

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• The European Accessibility Act will make the Web Better for Everyone
  

  a11y law web
  

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• WSL-For-FreeBSD: Experimental project to FreeBSD in WSL2
  

  freebsd virtualization windows
  

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• w11: PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Tinymist is an integrated language service for Typst
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Julia v1.12 release highlights
  

  programming release
  

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• TIL: Python's splitlines does a lot more than just newlines
  

  python
  

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• Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
  

  linux programming
  

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• Interval Calculator
  

  math
  

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• Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native
  

  javascript
  

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• HUML :: Human-oriented Markup Language
  

  programming
  

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• The Mondrian introduction to functional optics
  

  haskell plt visualization
  

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• Oral History of Ken Thompson
  

  video historical unix
  

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• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality
  

  video practices
  

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• asPipes: working pipelines today in pure JavaScript
  

  javascript
  

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• Examples are the best documentation
  

  practices
  

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• Solving Git's Pain Points with Jujutsu
  

  video vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink and roll paper support
  

  hardware
  

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• Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel
  

  linux
  

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• The Software Essays that Shaped Me
  

  programming
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released
  

  release
  

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• we move as 1
  

  games
  

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• MAML - a new configuration language (similar to JSON, YAML, and TOML)
  

  programming
  

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• The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop)
  

  programming retrocomputing rust
  

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• The expression problem and Rust
  

  rust
  

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• io_uring is not an event system (2021)
  

  linux performance
  

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• Introducing tdom: HTML templating with t‑strings
  

  python
  

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• UNIX99: UNIX for the TI-99/4A
  

  osdev unix
  

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• Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
  

  reversing
  

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• The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Rating 26 years of Java changes
  

  historical java
  

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• Ghostty 1.2.0 - Release Notes
  

  release
  

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• Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually
  

  ml plt
  

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• The E Language
  

  plt
  

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• Rye Tables vs Python/Pandas: A Different Way to Wrangle Data
  

  programming python
  

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• asciinema 3.0 adds live streaming and local-first recording
  

  release
  

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• Motorola, Intel, IBM Make A Mainframe in a PC - The PC XT/370
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Varnish: 8.0.0 with bonus project news
  

  distributed release
  

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• React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
  

  javascript web
  

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• Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000
  

  retrocomputing
  

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